@article{PAR00014299,
  title = {{T}he impact of {N}ational {L}and {C}over and {S}oils {D}ata on {SMOS} {S}oil moisture retrieval over {C}anadian agricultural landscapes},
  author = {{P}acheco, {A}. and {M}c{N}airn, {H}. and {M}ahmoodi, {A}. and {C}hampagne, {C}. and {K}err, {Y}ann},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{T}o ensure sustainable agriculture production, the availability of water in the right quantity and at the right time is critical, with extremes in availability resulting in severe impacts on the agricultural sector. {D}elivery of timely and accurate soil moisture data can play a vital role in monitoring the status of available water reserves for this sector. {P}assive microwave sensors, such as the {S}oil {M}oisture and {O}cean {S}alinity ({SMOS}), are well suited for monitoring vast landscapes given their all-weather capabilities, large spatial footprint, frequent revisit, and the sensitivity of microwave emissions to the soil dielectric. {T}his study examines the impact of exploiting {C}anadian soil and land cover datasets in the retrieval of soil moisture from {SMOS} over an agricultural area in the province of {M}anitoba ({C}anada). {R}esults demonstrate that global datasets that are integrated within the current {SMOS} processor perform adequately when field measured soil moisture is compared to estimates of soil moisture by {SMOS} ({R}-2 of 0.70 (p <.01) and root-mean-square error ({RMSE}) of 7.15% with a negative (dry) bias of -0.05%). {O}verall, this study showed that ingesting high-quality national datasets into the {SMOS} soil moisture retrieval algorithm did not fully resolve the underestimation of soil moisture, suggesting that further investigation is required to understand this bias. {A}lso, several approaches were evaluated to improve statistical field-derived soil moisture representation in the validation of {SMOS} soil moisture retrieval and it is clear that good representation of soil moisture as a function of soil textures is crucial to accurately validate {SMOS} soil moisture products.},
  keywords = {{A}griculture ; brightness temperature ; land surface ; monitoring ; passive ; microwave remote sensing ; surface texture ; soil moisture ; {CANADA}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{IEEE} {J}ournal of {S}elected {T}opics in {A}pplied {E}arth {O}bservations and {R}emote {S}ensing},
  volume = {8},
  numero = {11},
  pages = {5281--5293},
  ISSN = {1939-1404},
  year = {2015},
  DOI = {10.1109/jstars.2015.2417832},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/{PAR}00014299},
}